College Magazine Evaluation

By Oliver Harradine

How typical is your magazine • I have tried to follow many of the conventions of a magazine and a college magazine which I have founding

during my research before making my real college magazine

Here is my college magazine title which I have called education because it fits in the with the genre of the magazine which is a convention of any magazine and I have positioned it in at the top in the middle to follow the convention of college magazine and also it makes it stand out. It also means that it can be a bigger font so it would be easier to see if it was on a magazine stand

The image that I have used for my front cover is a medium close up of a college student called Lewis Hayes. I have used this image because it follows both the conventions of a college magazine and a normal magazine because I found form my research that they both normal uses a medium shot or a medium closes up because it fills more space on magazine and also so you can get some of the facial details in the face. Also I have positioned my image in the middle third so it follows the rule of thirds and also because it follows the convention of college magazine where they put the image in 5the middle third and have articles down the right and left third

How typical is your magazine

Here is an article from my front cover which follows the convention of a typical college magazine. This is because it makes the genre of the magazine obvious to the reader because theses are the most common articles you are likely to find on a college magazine

Here is my contents page which I have made following all of the conventions of a college magazine. Like the articles are in columns so they are easier to read and also the articles are all related to the genre of the magazine and they some of the most common storeys. Also I have placed my images at the top to separate the images and the text and all my images link to articles in the magazine. Also top create synergy with my front page I have used the same blue from my front cover in my content page.

Who would be the audience for your media product• The audience for my media product is 16-18 years olds college

students. I have shown this by using a image of my target audience for my main image on my front cover and also by using images of the college on the contents page. I have also tried to choses topic for my article that are focused at this audiences like a article about smoking which is a big problem to my audiences because this is the time in there life were there most vulnerable to it. Also a story about revision tips which is good for my audiences because this is time in the life where there most likely to have exams to worry about.

How does your media product represent particular social groups • My media product shows represents one particular social group of

smokers to be unaware of the risk of smoking. Also it represents students as being obsessed with the latest gossip and want is happening to other and also it shows them as desperate to knowhow to revises properly because they don’t know how to. Also it represents students as always look for a discount because I have put a puff on the front cover that says win £50 in discount vouchers. By the image used on my front page it represent students as being very vain and boring because he is not smiling , he is looking very focused into the camera

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

• I have learnt by doing this that I should uses bright colour and big and clear fonts on the front of my magazine so that it stands out from all of the other magazines. Also it makes it eye-catching to any one who see it out of the corner of there eye. Also I have learn to follow almost all of the convention of a college magazine like a medium shot main image and typical college article. I have done this so it look professional.